Signal device



B. WEISS.

SIGNA L DEVICE- FILED MAR-18,1922! Jan. 2, 1923 ATTO RN EY llatented Jan, 2, 1923.

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BENJAMIN WEISS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SIGNAL DEVICE Application filed March 18,1922. Serial No. 544,886.

1 all LU/71.07% it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN Vvmss, a citizen 0:1 the United States, residing at New Yorlc in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Signal Devices of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to signalling devices.

Some of the objects of the present invention are: to improve the device shown in the United States Patent No. 1,163,491; granted to me in 'jointure; to provide alarm actuating means which will actuate the alarm 1 repeatedly at intervals in a more reliable manner. With these and other objects in view the invention resides in the particular provision, construction and operation of parts hereinafter fully described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in

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Figure 1 is a sectional view of the device of the present invention, I L

Figure 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view of the alarm mechanism actuating means.

Figure 3 is a sectional plan viewof the alarm mechanism.

Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of the two-part arm forming a part of the alarm mechanism.

Referring now more particularly to the several views 01 the drawing for all of the details of construction and operation of the i parts, it will be apparent that there has been shown a support 10 which comprises a part 11 and a part 12 having suitable feet 13. In use the support 10 has positioned on the part 11 a container such as a drip pan which receives an ever increasing weight of water. In use the part 12 of the support 10 is stationary with respect to the part 11 which is yieldingly mounted on the part 12. Springs 14; are employed. for yieldiugly mounting the part 11 on the part The parts 11 and 12 in. the present instance, are preferably made of metal and are round. The part 11 has a flange 15 and the part 12 has a flange 16. Pins 17 and slots 1.8 of the flanges 16 and 15 re spectively limit the upward movement of the part 11 with respect to the part 12 under the influence of the springs 1.4;.

Attached to the underside of the part 12 of the support 11 is an alarm, similar to the alarm shown in the said patent granted to me in that it is made up of a pair of hinged sections, and in that it has a trip. In the present instance the alarm 19 comprises actuating mechanism 20 including an escapement 21 which wields a striker 22; a bell 23; and escapementstopping and releasing means 241. The escapement stopping and re- I which has pivotal movement within cer-' tain prescribed limits by reason of the portions and 3 1 at the end of the member 31 whlch engage the iiurcations '35 at the end of the arm 29.

Means 36 is employed for effecting the operation of the alarm actuating mechanism. in the present instance the means 36 consists of a member 37 which is rranged centrally ot' the part 12 of the support 10, and the said member 37 is movablethrough an opening in the part 12 which is surrounded by a boss which acts as a guide. The upper end of the member 37 has a head, between which and the part 12, is a spring 38 which. surrounds the member 37. The lower. end of the member 37 is reduced to provide a shoulder 39. A member 10 is arranged on the reduced end of the member 37. 'A screw 41 prevents the member 40 from slipping oil of the said reduced end. The member 410 has a plurality o1 cam-ribs 12, preferably three in number. The member 40 is actuated by a spring 13 which surrounds the reduced end of the member 37, and, which is arranged between the shoulder 39 and the adjacent end of the member 40.

Under the normal relation of the parts 11 and 12 of the support 10, the head of the member 37 touches the top of part 11, and the lowermost cam-rib 42 is some distance above the member 31. as water in a drip pan placed on the part .11 will cause the said part 11 to move downwardly causing the lowermost cam-rib 12 to encounter the member 31 with the result that the member 31 and the arm 29 to which it is connected will move laterally. The lateral movement of the arm 29 turns the pivot 25 which causes the arm 26 to move out of engagement with the pin 27 Weight, e such i vith the result that the escapenwnt ,i-i "y i u 4:41 i 1 it. i u opeia on, o i the es i ceiw v er teets the wielding ot the striker 22 and theretire the ringing oi? the boil 2?). find so the cycle of operations is repeated by n. 7 u 1 40 1/ n-inn *i A the ot xci tno 1111ll)5 .4 mount-Ms we member 31.. The fact that the member is allowed to have pivotal movement :21 d the fact that the member it) is yieidingly mounted insures the successive opera i the alarm as the weight applied to A 11 is in *reased. In the interval of (12111} rib engagements, the arm 26 is in ment with the pin 27 ot the gear 28 hoia,- the latter against rotation and consequently preventing the operation of the esca ement means 2 Under the arrangement and epera tion of the parts the alarm will be sounded at three inter *als. Uilf course any number oi cam-ribs L2 may oyed to sound the alarm many times as may be desired.

From the foregoing it will be maniiiest that the device of the present invention is capable of being used for other purposes besides giving a Warning signal that the erio pan oi a refrigerator is partly or nezrl tilled with Water.

hat is claimed is:

1. In combination a support comprising a movable element and a relativeiy stationary element, an alarm de ice carried by said. stationary element said alarm device including a spring actuated arm and a member pivotally mounted on said arm 211d means operable upon the movement of d mov able element for elfecting the movement of said spring actuated arm to operate said alarm device, the said means including a uc'mber havilw spaced cant-ribs which oni i counter and move said pivotally mounted member.

in combination a support conuprising a dingly mounted elem and a relatively stationary element upon which the iirstelement is inointed, an alarm device carried by saifv stationary element, said alarm device iiichidingz; a pair of pivotaily mountcd members one of which has movement with respect to the other, and means operable upon the movement of the yieldingly mounted element 01 eliecting' the movement of id pivotally mounted members to operate Paul alarm device repeatedly at predetmrmined inervals the said means including a yicldingly mounted member having spaced email s which encounter and more one of A wotally mounted members.

combination a support comprising a y mounted element and a reiatively y -element upon which the first eles mounted, an aiarn'i device carried 1 f stationary element, the said alarm device including escapenriet mechanism hava bell striker, and r s for stopping; blhgi said escapeineiit ineal'ianisin; l means inciudi son a gear having a pin,

an a in zmai ted to be moved in the pa n of travel of said pin, and a pair of pivotally mounted members connected to said arm; and me: ns oper ble-upon the movement of l yieldingiy mounted element for resaid escapeincnt mechanism and al h the said first means to stop said escepeinent mechanism.

in testimony whereof I hereby tl'iliX my signature.

BENJAIEHN WEISS. 

